CHAPTER CCLXII. An Act relative to the County Treasurer of Lake County. [Approved March 24, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The County Treasurer of Lake County shall re- Salary. ceive, in addition to the compensation allowed by law, (shall receive) a salary of five hundred dollars per annum, payable quarterly, out of the General Fund of said county. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force immediately. CHAPTER CCLXIII. An Act authorizing Frederick W. Kuelp, Hugo Schenk, John Foster, [Approved March 24, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Frederick W. Kuelp, Hugo Schenk, John Foster, Franchise William Workman, Theodore Riser, A. Langenberger, their asso- granted. ciates and assigns, shall have the right to construct and maintain a wharf in the County of Los Angeles on the Bay of Bolea Chiquita, on the tide and overflowed lands of the State, thirteen and one half miles from the Town of Anaheim, and one mile and a half from the former landing of the Anaheim Lighter Company. occupied. SEC. 2. For the purpose of said wharf there is hereby granted Land to be to the parties named in section one, their associates and assigns, the right to use and occupy a strip of land five hundred feet in width, commencing at high water mark and extending into said bay four hundred feet, or until a sufficient depth of water shall be obtained for the accomodation of commerce; provided, the free navigation of the bay shall not be obstructed; and the franchise herein granted shall continue for the term of twenty years. SEC. 3. The said Frederick W. Kuelp, Hugo Schenk, John To be comFoster, William Workman, Theodore Riser, A. Langenberger, pleted. their associates and assigns, shall build and erect said wharf within two years from the passage of this Act, and shall thereafter keep the same in good repair, and enlarge it as the business and commerce of the county may require; and they shall be allowed to collect such dockage and wharfage thereon as the Board of Supervisors of said county may allow. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. Time extended. Routes may be shortened CHAPTER CCLXIV. An Act granting certain privileges to the Front Street, Mission and [Approved March 24, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The time for laying and completing the Front Street, Mission and Ocean Railroad, and the several railroads which the Front Street, Mission and Ocean Railroad Company is authorized to construct, equip and maintain in the City and County of San Francisco, is hereby extended for the term of two years. SEC. 2. The said Front Street, Mission and Ocean Railroad Company are hereby authorized and empowered to relinquish and abandon any part of their several routes at any time within two years without prejudice to their rights, privileges and franchises in the remaining portions of their routes; and such relinquishment and abandonment shall be evidenced by filing a certificate to that effect in the office of the Secretary of State, which said certificate shall be under the band and seal of the President and Secretary, and the corporate seal of said company; provided, no portion of said railroad shall be abandoned on which rails have been laid. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect immediately. How constituted. CHAPTER CCLXV. An Act amendatory of and supplementary to an Act entitled an Act to provide for the continuance and election of a Board of Supervisors in and for the County of San Mateo, and to define and limit the powers and duties of said Board in certain cases, approved March twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. [Approved March 24, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section one of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 1. The Board of Supervisors of San Mateo County shall consist of six Supervisors, who shall be elected and chosen one from each township as now provided by law, and hold office for two years and until their successors shall, respectively, be elected and qualified. The Supervisors shall be chosen at the general election in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-five and at the general election every two years thereafter. The Supervisors now in office shall continue in office until their suc cessors shall be elected and qualified as aforesaid. All orders and acts made, passed or done by the Board of Supervisors, in order to be binding and of legal effect, shall be concurred in by at least four of the members of said Board. township. SEC. 2. All that territory in San Mateo County lying be- Pescadero tween the boundary line of the Counties of Santa Cruz and San Mateo, as established by an Act of the Legislature entitled an Act to fix and define the boundary line between the counties of San Mateo and Santa Cruz, approved March seventeenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and the boundary line between said counties as it existed prior to the passage of said Act, shall constitute a township of San Mateo County, and be known as "Pescadero Township." County. SEC. 3. The Supervisor now representing said District or Transferred Township of Pescadero in the Board of Supervisors of Santa to San Mateo Cruz County shall no longer be a Supervisor of Santa Cruz County, but shall continue to be a Supervisor representing said Pescadero Township in the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Mateo, and shall continue to hold his office until the next general election for county officers; and all other officers of said township who have their residences in said Pescadero Township shall continue to hold their respective offices until their term expires by law. All vacancies in any of the offices of said township shall be filled by appointment of the Board of Supervisors of San Mateo County; and all laws that are exclusively applicable to the County of San Mateo shall be applicable to said township. SEC 4. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER CCLXVI. An Act granting certain privileges to the North Beach and Mission [Approved March 24, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The time for the North Beach and Mission Rail- Time exroad Company to lay and complete the several railroads which tended. it is authorized to construct, equip and maintain in the City of San Francisco is hereby extended for the period of two years from and after the first day of September, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. Fire Marshal CHAPTER CCLXVII. An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to provide for the prevention of conflagrations, and the protection of property saved from fire, in the City and County of San Francisco, approved February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. [Approved March 24, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section one of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 1. It shall be lawful for the association known as the Board of Fire Underwriters, in the City and County of San Francisco, to nominate, and with the approval of the Board of Police Commissioners to appoint, a public officer to be known as the Fire Marshal, who shall hold his office during the pleasure of the said Board of Fire Underwriters. Before entering upon the duties of his office he shall take and subscribe the oath of office before the County Judge and execute a bond to the State of California in the sum of five thousand dollars, conditional for the faithful discharge of his duties, with two sureties to be approved by the County Judge; and his salary shall be fixed from time to time and paid by said Board of Underwriters. Any person aggrieved by any misconduct of said officer or of his deputy, hereinafter provided for, may bring an action in his own name on such official bond to recover any damages sustained by him. Said bond shall be deposited with the County Clerk of said city and county, subject to the order of the County Substitute. Judge. And in case of the sickness, absence, or inability of the said Fire Marshal, the said Fire Marshal, with the consent of said Board of Underwriters and Police Commissioners, is hereby authorized and empowered to appoint any competent person to act for and in his stead during such sickness, absence or inability; and such person so appointed shall have all the powers and authority conferred by this Act upon said Fire Marshal. Interest on bonds to abate. CHAPTER CCLXVIII. An Act supplementary and amendatory of an Act entitled an Act to provide for the funding of the indebtedness of the County of Mendocino. [Approved March 24, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Whenever there shall be money in the Sinking Fund of the County of Mendocino for the redemption of the bonds of said county, and the Treasurer shall advertise therefor, as provided in an Act entitled an Act to provide for funding the indebtedness of the County of Mendocino, approved April nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and if there shall be no bids received, the advertisement shall be deemed a tender of the amount in the Sinking Fund to the holders of said bonds; and from and after the time specified in such advertisement for the opening of bids, the said bonds shall cease to bear interest, to the extent of the amount in the Sinking Fund. Sinking SEC. 2. At the time fixed in said advertisement for the opening Apportionof bids, in case there are none, the Treasurer shall divide the ment of amount in the Sinking Fund proportionally among the several Fund. bonds, and shall ascertain the payment to which each bond is entitled, and shall make an entry and record thereof. SEC. 3. Any bondholder shall be entitled to receive from Payment. the Treasurer the amount to which his bond is entitled at any time after said entry, by presenting his bond to the Treasurer, with a credit indorsed thereon of the amount due and payable on said bond from said Sinking Fund. SEC. 4. From and after the time of making said entry the Proportion. interest on each bond shall abate in the proportion as the amount of the payment to which said bond is entitled is to the whole principal of said bond. SEC. 5. At the time of making said entry the Treasurer of Deductions. said county shall also ascertain the amount to be deducted from each coupon and make an entry and record of the same. SEC. 6. Upon the presentation of said coupons for payment the Treasurer shall deduct the said amount therefrom and pay the balance, as provided by law. SEC. 7. Any bid for more than par shall be deemed no bid within the meaning of this Act. SEC. 8. This Act shall be in force from and after its passage. CHAPTER CCLXIX. An Act concerning roads and highways in the County of San [Approved March 24, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the County of San Road tax to Bernardino are hereby authorized and empowered to levy and be levied. cause to be collected an annual tax for the opening, repairing and maintenance of public roads and highways in said county, not to exceed fifteen cents upon each one hundred dollars worth of the taxable property in said county, at their regular meeting for the levy of taxes in the year eighteen hundred and sixtyeight and every year thereafter; provided, that in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-eight said Board of Supervisors may |